Man sentenced for terroristic threat involving a Fulton school

A Jefferson City man pleaded guilty to charges of making a terroristic threat after he allegedly called a Fulton school saying he was going to come to school with a gun to see his kids.

Courtney Reid, 38, of Jefferson City pleaded guilty to making a terroristic threat, a class C, felony Monday. The court sentenced Reid to two years in prison with credit for time served and to be served concurrently with any other sentence. Reid was initially arrested on suspicion of making a terroristic threat, third-degree domestic assault and six counts of violating an order of protection, according to a news release.

An anonymous caller to Fulton Middle School on Aug. 29, 2016, said a person was going to come to the school with a gun to see his kids. Reid was later identified as the culprit, police said. The threat also was determined to be possibly directed at staff or students at Bush Elementary School.

Reid had been in an ongoing dispute with a woman who is the mother of his two children, one of whom goes to Bush Elementary School in Fulton, police said. The woman has two children who attend Fulton Middle School, but Reid is not their father, Rice said. Reid had ignored an order of protection the woman obtained against him in the few weeks before authorities arrested Reid, and he allegedly threatened the woman via text messages and social media, police said.

The schools were locked down for more than three hours after the threat was made.